Biography
José Luis Alcaine is a Spanish cinematographer. Born on 26 December 1938 in Tangier, Morocco, he trained at the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía in Madrid and began working in the mid-1960s. He is noted as a pioneer in the use of fluorescent tubes as key lighting during the 1970s.
Alcaine has collaborated extensively with directors including Pedro Almodóvar on films such as Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990), Bad Education (2004), Volver (2006) and The Skin I Live In (2011). His other credits include El sur (1983), Belle Époque (1992) and Parallel Mothers (2021).
He has received five Goya Awards for best cinematography and the European Film Award for Best Cinematographer for Volver. In 2019 he was awarded the Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes.
